Francis Ford Coppola has expressed his disapproval of being crowned the worst director for “Megalopolis” after the film was nominated for six Razzies, including for its worst picture and screenplay.
The director’s $120 million passion project has already been subject to criticism and floundering at the box office, earning only $12 million globally.Megalopolis was awarded by the Razzies, the annual pre-Oscars fake awards for the worst movies of the year, on Friday.
Coppola took to Instagram to reply: “I am thrilled to accept the Razzie award in so many important categories for @megalopolisfilm, and for the distinctive honor of being nominated as the worst director, worst screenplay, and worst picture at a time when so few have the courage to go against the prevailing trends of contemporary moviemaking!”
Continued the director: “In this wreck of a world today, where ART is given scores as if it were professional wrestling, I chose to NOT follow the gutless rules laid down by an industry so terrified of risk that despite the enormous pool of young talent at its disposal, may not create pictures that will be relevant and alive 50 years from now.”
He concluded by noting: “What an honor to stand alongside a great and courageous filmmaker like Jswswqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq`qq who impoverished himself completely to make one of cinema’s most beloved failures, “PLAYTIME!” My sincere thanks to all my brilliant colleagues who joined me to make our work of art, “MEGALOPOLIS“, and let us remind ourselves us that box-office is only about money, and like war, stupidity and politics has no true place in our future.”
Worst Picture
Borderlands : A big-budget video-game-based bomb that racked up 90 percent negative reviews at Rotten Tomatoes (and suffered an estimated $100+ million loss)
Joker: Folie à Deux: A highly anticipated comic-book-based sequel that had its protagonists express their mental illness and villainy — by singing and dancing!
Madame Web: A comic-book-based movie originally released a year ago that spent the rest of 2024 being touted everywhere as “a serious Razzie contender” (WINNER)
Megalopolis (aka WTF the Movie): An incoherent $120 million mess from the fabled director of The Godfather
Reagan: A love letter to the 40th president that “borrowed” its plot structure from Citizen Kane (with Jon Voight imitating Bullwinkle’s nemesis Boris Badenov as its narrator)
Actor
Jack Black / Dear Santa
Zachary Levi / Harold and the Purple Crayon
Joaquin Phoenix / Joker: Folie à Deux
Dennis Quaid / Reagan
Jerry Seinfeld / Unfrosted (WINNER)
Actress
Cate Blanchett / Borderlands
Lady Gaga / Joker: Folie à Deux
Bryce Dallas Howard / Argylle
Dakota Johnson / Madame Web (WINNER)
Jennifer Lopez / Atlas
Supporting Actor
Jack Black (Voice Only) Borderlands
Kevin Hart / Borderlands
Shia LaBeouf (in drag) / Megalopolis
Tahar Rahim / Madame Web
Jon Voight / Megalopolis, Reagan, Shadow Land & Strangers (WINNER)
Supporting Actress
Ariana DeBose / Argylle & Kraven the Hunter
Leslie Anne Down (as Margaret Thatcher) / Reagan
Emma Roberts / Madame Web
Amy Schumer / Unfrosted (WINNER)
FKA twigs / The Crow
Director
S.J. Clarkson / Madame Web
Francis Ford Coppola / Megalopolis (WINNER)
Todd Phillips / Joker: Folie à Deux
Eli Roth / Borderlands
Jerry Seinfeld / Unfrosted
Screen Combo
Any Two Obnoxious Characters (But Especially Jack Black) / Borderlands
Any Two Unfunny “Comedic Actors” / Unfrosted
The Entire Cast of Megalopolis / Megalopolis
Joaquin Phoenix & Lady Gaga / Joker: Folie à Deux (WINNER)
Dennis Quaid & Penelope Ann Miller (as “Ronnie and Nancy”) / Reagan
Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel
The Crow
Joker: Folie à Deux (WINNER)
Kraven the Hunter
Mufasa: The Lion King
Rebel Moon 2: The Scargiver
Screenplay
Joker: Folie à Deux
Kraven the Hunter
Madame Web (WINNER)
Megalopolis
Reagan